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The Bone-Hunter tells the true story of Mary Anning – a poor girl who became a fossil-hunter and went on to make many amazing discoveries. This exciting pack focuses on fossils, dinosaurs, and of course Mary’s life and achievements.
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Teaching ResourcesAwesome Adventures: The Bone-Hunter
In Brief
1 Literacy lesson ideas If you come across a word that you don’t know, just look it up in the Glossary. Why not impress people by using the new words you have learned?
Did you enjoy reading about Mary’s life and discoveries? What did you think of the way people treated her during her life? Check out the questions on the Class Discussion Sheet to start talking about her experiences.
The Reading Comprehension Sheet introduces special words called comparatives and intensifiers – can you find them in the extract from the story?
Retell Mary’s story in your own words! Write about what happened to her under the pictures on our latest Storyboard worksheet.
Answer the questions on the Story Structure Sheet to work out the most important facts about Mary Anning’s tale!
The events of Mary’s life have been jumbled up on the Story Sequencing Sheet. Can you put them in the right order by numbering each section?
Would you like to make up your own story about Mary and her family? Our Story Cards can help! Just print and cut them out, and draw a card to find out who (or what!) appears in your story next!
Learn about how to spot and use special adjectives (describing words) called comparatives and superlatives on the Bigger and Better! worksheet.
Mary Anning found fossils of ancient creatures in the cliffs at Lyme Regis – but can you find the dinosaurs and other giant reptiles in our special Big Word Search?
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2 Science Lesson Ideas
The Earth is billions of years old, and life on this planet has changed a great deal over that time! The Once Upon an Era reference sheet is filled with facts about eight ancient eras – including the times when dinosaurs roamed the world!
Have you ever wondered about where fossils come from? Check out the How Fossils Are Made sheet for a cool diagram explaining how some of these remains have lasted for many millions of years...
We couldn’t fit all of the fascinating facts about Mary Anning into this month’s story. The Amazing Mary! fact sheet is packed with more info!
Imagine that YOU have found an amazing fossil! Write all about it on the Fossil Discovery Journal sheet...
Art Lesson ideas3 After you have filled in your journal entry, don’t forget to draw what the creature you discovered would have looked like on the Look What I Found! page.
Mary discovered many beautiful swirly shells called ammonites on the beach – and then cleaned and polished them up to sell. Why not colour in the Ammonite Art? It could be worth more than half a crown!
When scientists find fossils of ancient creatures, they have to use their knowledge (and some imagination!) to create pictures of what their discoveries would have looked like when they were alive. The Dino-Draw sheets have skeletons on them – can you draw what the creatures might have looked like over the top of the bones?
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Don’t know a word in a story? Find out what it means here!
STOrYTIME GLOSSArY
The Wasps and the Bees (Page 6)
Honeycomb – honey-holding structure
Property – thing that belongs to someone
Buzzed – made a sound like ‘buzz’
Stinging – attacking with stings
Judge – person who decides winner
Creepy-crawlies – small creatures
Witness – person who saw something
Slimy – covered with slime
Objection – way of saying ‘I don’t agree!’
Stingers – pointy things for stinging
Elderly – old
Ability – skill or talent
The Bone-Hunter (Page 9)
Shore – where the land meets the sea
Cliffs – tall steep areas
Fascinated – very interested
Fancy – expensive or nicely decorated
Souvenirs – things collected on travels
Expeditions – trips
Chip – gently break
Breadwinner – main money-earner
Clay – kind of earth
Half a crown – a type of old coin
Polished – made smooth and shiny
Clogs – wooden overshoes
Wares – things for sale
Marvelled at – were impressed by
Eventually – after some time
Achievements – things she had done
Rosanella (Page 14)
Quarrelled – argued
Council – meeting of important people
Wisest – most wise
Instructed – told
Chamber – room
Peasant – ordinary farmer or farm worker
Cradle – bed for a baby
Birthmark – coloured area of skin
Neighbouring – next door
Charmingly – in a pleasant way
Multi-coloured – with many colours
Horizon – line where land meets sky
Barely – hardly
Tinkling – pleasant-sounding
Possessed – had
Qualities – things that make
someone special
Contest – competition
Hook’s Island (Page 20)
Overboard – off a ship
Pursued – chased
Chasing – going after
Reptile – type of cold-blooded animal
Ashore – onto the shore
Twitched – made a small, quick movement
Papaya – kind of fruit
Weaving – making things from threads
Hammock – sling for sleeping in
Paddled out – swam out
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STOrYTIME GLOSSArY
The Big Green Kraken (Page 22)
Currents – flows of water
Steaming – with steam coming off it
Ruffled – messed up
Chores – jobs
Algae – kind of simple plant
Drift – float along with currents
Echoes – reflected sounds
Diving chamber – room for diving out of
Flippers – fins put onto the feet
Snorkel – pipe for breathing through
Tentacle – long flexible arm
Suckers – body part that sticks to things
Dragged – pulled
Curiously – in a curious way
Booming – loud
Polluters – people that pollute
Scrap metal – metal junk
Mythical – from myths
Whirlpools – holes in water caused
by swirling currents
Harmful – having bad effects
Chemicals – substances
Rumbled – made a noise like ‘rumble’
The Raspberry Worm (Page 29)
Gathering – picking
Squealed – yelled in a high-pitched way
Scooped – picked
Smears – stains
Aplenty – in large amounts
Sniffled – sniffed
Creator – being who made everything
Parcel – package
The King of Crocodiles (Page 34)
Trampled – stepped all over
Livelihood – thing needed to make money
Menacing – frightening
Hurriedly – in a hurried way
Scampered – quickly ran
Promise – something he said he would do
Henna dye – reddish dye used on skin
Amazement – surprise and wonder
Trumpets – horn-shaped instruments
Tended – cared for
Beowulf and Grendel (Page 39)
Daybreak – when the sun comes up
Matted – tangled and dirty
Overturning – turning over
Gobbling – eating greedily
Underlings – servants
Spears – long pointy weapons
Pierced – cut or stabbed through
Foes – enemies
Yanking – pulling roughly
Ferocious – fierce and angry
Lair – place where creatures live
Dank – damp, dark and depressing
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We hope you enjoyed reading The Bone-Hunter! Can you answer these questions about Mary Anning?
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CLASS DISCUSSION SHEET
Text Questions
1. Mary did not have an easy life! What were two of the problems she
had to deal with?
2. Which person in her life do you think inspired Mary the most? Can you think
of a time in the story when she was probably inspired by that person?
3. What was Mary like as a person? Which three words would you choose
to describe her?
4. What did Mary look like? How do you think this affected the way in which
people treated her?
5. Why do you think the scientists who bought fossils from Mary were able to
claim her discoveries as their own? Why do you think people believed them
instead of Mary?
Answers: . 1. Mary came from a family that did not have much money for food or other necessities, and her father died when she was young. 2. Her father was an inspiration to her. He also noticed her interest in fossils and encouraged her. 3. Possibilities include smart, determined and hard-working. 4. Mary had simple and ragged clothes and sometimes looked dirty after digging up fossils. People might have wrongly assumed that did not know much because she came from a poor family. 5. At that time, people believed that only rich and educated men could be ‘proper’ scientists, and might not have believed that a poor girl could make scientific discoveries.
Imagine that you are Mary Anning and you have dug up an icthyosaur skeleton. Draw what she might have thought the creature looked like when it was alive!
Draw it!
Answers: 1. Assist and help. 2. Very. 3. A verb. 4. Cooler. What’s the Noun?: Thrower, walker and runner.
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READING COMPrEHENSION SHEET
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Check out the excerpt below – and then try to answer the questions about verbs, nouns, comparitives and intensifiers!
Richard started going on expeditions to collect fossils from the cliffs,
and five-year-old Mary was his assistant and helper. She was very clever,
and was great at spotting interesting things to dig up. He gave her a little
pick that she could use to chip fossils out of the rocks, which was cooler
than any toy.
1. The words ‘assistant’ and ‘helper’ are nouns.
What two verbs (doing words) do these words come from?
2. The second sentence has a word that
is an intensifier – it makes the word that
follows it stronger in meaning. Can you
work out what it is?
3. The word chip can be a noun or a verb.
In the third sentence, which one is it
working as?
4. The fourth sentence has an adjective
(describing word) that is a comparative
(can be used to compare one thing with
another). Can you work out which one it is?
WHAT’S THE NOUN? What noun would describe someone who does each of these actions? (Clue: you can usually add ‘-er’ to the end of a verb to make it a noun – for example hunt and hunter.)
THROW _______________WALK _________________RUN __________________
StorytimeTM
Teaching ResourcesRetell Mary’s story by writing in what happened to her in the spaces underneath the illustrations...
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Name Class
Who are the main characters in the story?
What is the solution?
How does the story end?
Where is the story set?
When is the story set?
StorytimeTM
Teaching ResourcesStory Structure Sheet
Name Class
What is the main problem in the story?
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Can you put the events of Mary Anning’s life back in order?
Story Sequencing Sheet
When rich people began visiting the village to bathe in the sea, Richard had an idea: he could sell them fossils as souvenirs!
Mary’s father Richard was a carpenter, but Lyme Regis was poor and it was hard for him to make enough money to feed his family.
One day, Mary discovered the skeleton of an ancient fossil fish. It was a major discovery, and helped Mary become famous.
On the beach that morning, she found a lovely ammonite shell. She sold it to a lady – and made enough money to feed her family!
Mary went to the beach with her father and helped him to find fossils that they could sell. She was very good at it!
Unfortunately, Richard slipped and fell while walking along the clifftops. He was seriously injured and soon passed away.
Without Richard, Mary and her family had a hard time affording enough food to eat, and sometimes went hungry.
Mary and Joseph began going down to the beach to collect shells. They sold them to rich visitors, and Mary even opened a little shop.
Mary was determined to find a way to make some money to help her family. One morning, she set out for the beach with her little pick.
Mary was born about two hundred years ago, in a little seaside village called Lyme Regis.
Richard often took Mary and her brother Joseph down to the beach. Mary loved to pick up the fossil bones and shells she found there.
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Story CardsImagine that Mary discovered an incredible new fossil on the beach! Why not make up your own story about this discovery by drawing a card every time you want a new person or thing to show up in your tale?
MARY
ANN
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SCIEN
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StorytimeTM
Teaching Resources
Comparatives and superlatives are adjectives (describing words) that are used to compare things to each other. This comes in very useful when talking about things like dinosaurs!
Bigger and Better!
ComparativeS
1. A diplodocus is than a london bus (TALL)
2. A Tyrannosaurus Rex’s tis than a (BIG)
3. Dinosaur fossils are than the (OLD)
To make a comparative, you usually add -er to the end of an adjective and then put than after it. See if you can make the right comparative for each of these sentences.
Superlatives To make a superlative, you usually just add -st or -est to the end of an adjective.
1. Argentinosaurus was the land animal of all time (HUGE)
2. The blue whale is the sea creature of all time. (LARGE)
3. The Nyasasaurus is the known dinosaur. (OLD)
Answers: Comparative: 1. taller than, 2. bigger than, 3. older than. Superlative: 1. hugest, 2. largest, 3. oldest.
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Mary Anning found fossils of prehistoric creatures on the beach –
but can you find the creatures hiding in this word search?
ANSWER:
D O I C T H Y O S A U R X B
C I M D N Q B W L C M G C H
A P P U T A H R A P T O R B
T O D L U P V K E O U I G R
R A Z Q O U T T V D B N U A
I B W B F D I E G C Y A Y C
C Q R D Y N O N R M L D E H
E S I P O K E C E O T R Y I
R C G M T E F Z U X S E D O
A R J K A Y P O I S E A G S
T A M B M A R D R X S V U A
O T X F O L J I W C P B S R
P Q B S U F H E L S J A Q U
S E O I A L L O S A U R U S
Ammonite
Brachiosaurus
Allosaurus
Diplodocus
Icthyosaur
Triceratops
Pterosaur
Utahraptor
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BIG WOrD SEArCHStorytimeTM
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Cretaceous 145 to 66 MYAWhat was it like? Very warm,
with no ice at the poles.
Creatures to look out for: Dinosaurs ruled the Earth – and they
included the tyrannosaurus rex!
Jurassic 201.3 to 145 MYAWhat was it like? Warm,
with deserts and jungles.
Creatures to look out for: Dinosaurs like the stegosaurus!
Permian 298.9 to 251.902 MYAWhat was it like? Warm and dry,
with large deserts.
Creatures to look out for: The sail-backed dimetrodon,
and early ancestors of mammals.
Triassic 251.902 to 201.3 MYAWhat was it like? Hot and dry, with
many deserts.
Creatures to look out for: Giant flying pterosaurs!
Devonian 419.2 to 358.9 MYAWhat was it like? Most of the land
was part of a giant continent called
Gondwana. Simple plants evolved.
Creatures to look out for: Many
new kinds of fish – watch out for
the early ancestors of sharks!
Carboniferous 358.9 to 298.9 MYAWhat was it like? The temperature
was like in modern times. Forests of
primitive trees grew across the land.
Creatures to look out for: Lots of amphibians, as well as
giant dragonflies and scorpions!
Ordovician 485.4 to 343.8 MYAWhat was it like? Very hot at first –
with an ice age at the end! Mosses
began to grow on dry land.
Creatures to look out for: Orthoceras, a shelled squid-like
shellfish that hunted in the oceans.
Silurian 443.8 to 419.2 MYAWhat was it like? Nice and warm!
There were many shallow seas
and frequent storms.
Creatures to look out for: Eurypterus, a large clawed sea
creature nicknamed a ‘sea scorpion’!
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ONCE UPON AN ErA
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The history of the Earth is divided into ‘eras’ lasting hundreds of millions of years. Cut out these handy cards that give you fun facts about them!
MYA = millions of years ago
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Mary Anning had a hard life, but she achieved
many amazing things! Here are some more
fascinating facts about this feisty fossil-hunter!
1 THE MOTHER OF PALAEONTOLOGY! Mary Anning’s discoveries were very
important to a new kind of science, called paleontology. This is the study
of ancient living things and the fossils they left behind.
2 IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME! Lyme Regis is close to the cliffs of
what is now known as the ‘Jurassic Coast’. It is particularly rich in fossils from
ancient oceans, and Mary made money selling her finds to holidaymakers.
5 NOT A FISH! The giant fossil Mary and her brother found in 1809-11 was the
skeleton of a marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur. You can see the fossil
they found at the National History Museum in London.
4 AHEAD OF HER TIME! The London Geological Society is dedicated to the
discovery of the Earth, but it didn’t allow Mary Anning to join, just because
she was a woman. It finally accepted its first female member in 1904.
3 FOLLOW IN HER FOOTSTEPS! You can visit the Lyme Regis Museum and see
fascinating exhibits about her! The museum also arranges guided walks along
the beach, following the same paths that Mary took when she hunted for fossils.
7 POO DISCOVERIES! Mary didn’t just dig up shells and bones. She also found
lots of coprolites – which is a fancy way of saying ‘fossilised poos’!
6 MARY ANNING’S BEST FRIEND! In 1823, Mary and her dog, Trey, discovered the
remains of another marine reptile, called a plesiosaur. This long-necked sea
creature looked so strange that many people thought the fossil was a fake!
Imagine that you have discovered an amazing fossilised creature! Write a record of your incredible discovery below...
Discovered by (your name): When did it live (era)? What did it eat? How did it move around? What did your creature look like? Now draw a picture of your creature on the next page!
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FOSSIL DISCOVERY JOURNAL
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Look what I found!On the previous page, you wrote about your own imaginary fossil discovery. Now draw a picture of your creation below!
THERE ARE MANY TYPES OF FOSSIL!
They include:
• Moulds showing an
animal’s skin texture
• Preserved footprints left
by ancient creatures
• Frozen remains of actual flesh
and hair from more recent
creatures, like mammoths
• Coprolites, or fossilised poo!
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Ammonite shells were among the many fossils Mary found and sold in her little shop. Colour in the shell below to make it look as pretty as possible! Why not use some collage to add texture?
Ammonite art
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When scientists discover a fossil, they have to use their knowledge
and imagination to create a picture of what they think the creature
looked like when it was alive. Draw your own amazing dinosaur
over the skeleton shown on this page...
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Did You Know?At first, scientists thought that dinosaurs had scales or knobbly skin. However, many now believe that lots of dinosaurs had feathers. This makes sense, because dinosaurs are related to modern birds!